Petebs



(No Model.)

H. L. MOTTBR.

' PUZZLE.

No. 414,986. Patented Nov. 12, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY L. MOTTER, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Nb. 414,986, dated November12, 1889.

Application filed July 11'; 1889. $erial No. 317,115. (No model.)-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY L. 'lVIOTTER, a citizen of the United States,residing at York, in the county of York and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented .certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles, of which thefollowing is a specification,reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan View of myimproved toy or puzzle, and Fig. 2 a transverse sectional view taken onthe line 0000 of Fig. 1.

The object of the invention is to furnish an interesting and amusingpuzzle or toy, which may be cheaply manufactured, as will presentlyappear.

The invention consists of certain novel features of construction, whichwill be fully hereinafter set forth, and particularly pointed out in theclaim appended.

In the drawings annexed, the letter A designates a disk. provided with asmooth upper surface and mounte d upon a central pivotal cone B,the apexof the cone resting in a suitable recessin the bottom of the disk,whereby the said disk may be readily rotated and os- Upon the face ofthe disk is erected and suitably secured an outer octagonal inclosure a,Within which is formed a main rectangular inclosure b, a space oralley-way 0 being left between the two inclosures. The inclosure bcommunicates with the alley-way c at its corners and at about the middleof each of its four sides by means of openings d, as shown. Theinclosure b is divided or partitioned off into a number of smallsquares, (preferably thirty-six,) which communicate with each other byopenings similar to the openings d, above described. The four centersquares are painted or otherwise distinguished from each other withdifferent colors. Placed loosely in the alley-way c are four balls 2,colored to correspond with the colors of the four central squares.

The object is to so manipulate the disk that the balls will be placedand kept upon their respective central squaresthe black ball upon theblack square, the blue ball upon the blue square, and so onthe openingsor gateways between the inclosures enabling this to be done.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A plate or disk provided upon its face with an octagonal inclosure a andan inner rectangular inclosure I), this inner rectangular inclosurehaving side and corner openings (1 and being partitioned off intosmaller intercommunicating rectangles, as shown and described, incombination with a suitable number of balls 6 and a suitable pivotalsupport, substantially as described.

In testimony whereofI affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY L. MOTTER. Witnesses:

ISAAC A. ELLIOTT, G. H. LEBER.

